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Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015. La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer ') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
La Llorona was one of the 21 sound films created in Mexico in 1933. [5] The film's story is based on that of La llorona , a crying woman from Hispanic folklore who mourns her dead child. [ 7 ] According to the newspaper El Universal , the filmmakers found difficulty in finding a voice for the ghost that would be convincing and not encourage ...
This idea has evolved with the story itself and is now used to explains the rude way Anglo Americans treat Spanish descent people, specifically Mexican Americans. [16] This story, or at least its name, has since been used as a reference to anti-Latino bias by the 2020 film La Leyenda Negra .
La Llorona's role in Chicana literature. Folklore scholar Jose Limon argues that "La Llorona [is] a symbol that speaks to the course of Greater Mexican [and Chicana/o] history and does so for women, in particular, but through the idiom of women [it]also symbolizes the utopian longing [for equality and justice]'."
"La Llorona" is Spanish for "The Weeping Woman" and is a popular legend in all Spanish-speaking cultures in the colonies of the Americas, with many versions extant. The basic story is that La Llorona was a beautiful woman who killed her children to be with the man that she loved and was subsequently rejected by him.
Variants of the Llorona legend are told throughout Mexico and because of the Llorona figure can be pitied and feared at the same time. [15] Throughout all of the versions, the Llorona figure is known as "the white lady" because she wears white. [15] Legends similar to La Llorona include La Malinche and La Xtabay.
Most of the stories in the collection are between one and fifteen pages in length; [11] "Eyes of Zapata", the longest story, is 29 pages long, while "Salvador Late or Early" and "There Was a Man, There Was a Woman" each occupies a single page. The first and second plot of the story in this book shares the title, "My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like ...
In 20th century Mexico, newly wed couple Felipe (Mauricio Garcés) and Margarita (Luz María Aguilar) are visited by Margarita's father, Don Gerardo Montes (Carlos López Moctezuma), who tells them the story of La Llorona. In 16th century Mexico, an Indian and Spanish woman named Luisa is visited by an upper class Spanish conquistador named Don ...